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Key takeaways from The idea of primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong

Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong

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owned bows, arrows, axes and cooking implements. Women owned the fruit they collected. Even meat became private property as it was handed out.

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